Re: Is there a way to send a keystroke to a background app without an AppleScript dictionary?
Re: Is there a way to send a keystroke to a background app without an AppleScript dictionary?
- Subject: Re: Is there a way to send a keystroke to a background app without an AppleScript dictionary?
- From: Jim Krenz via AppleScript-Users <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 18:30:00 -0700
Hello Yvan,
Thank you for the script. Unfortunately, it activates the Podcasts app, which
is something I don’t want to do. It even activates if I remove the tell
application "Podcasts" to activate line.
As I mentioned in my request, I want to send the command to the Podcasts app
without activating it.
Sincerely,
Jim
> On Apr 27, 2020, at 1:28 am, Yvan KOENIG via AppleScript-Users
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>
>> Le 27 avr. 2020 à 01:46, Jim Krenz via AppleScript-Users
>> <email@hidden
>> <mailto:email@hidden>> a écrit :
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Is there a way to send a keystroke to a background app without an
>> AppleScript dictionary?
>>
>> From what I can tell, the Podcasts app does not have a AppleScript
>> dictionary.
>>
>> What I want to do, is to send a keystroke (⌘ ⇧ →) to the Podcasts app,
>> without activating it.
>>
>> Here is what I have thus far (but it does not work):
>>
>> tell application "System Events"
>> tell process "Podcasts"
>> key code 124 using {shift down, command down}
>> end tell
>> end tell
>>
>> Thanks for any ideas or suggestion on how to do the above.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Jim
>
> As far as I know GUI Scripting requires the target process to be active.
>
> This code is supposed to work but I can't test as Podcasts is unavailable on
> my system running 10.13.6.
>
> tell application "Podcasts" to activate
> tell application "System Events"
> tell process "Podcasts"
> set frontmost to true -- old habit used because some OS were
> slow to put the process to front after 'activate'
> key code 124 using {shift down, command down}
> end tell
> end tell
>
> Yvan KOENIG running High Sierra 10.13.6 in French (VALLAURIS, France) lundi
> 27 avril 2020 10:27:58
>
>
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